Streaming subscriptions overtook cable in 2018

Cable companies have been nervous about streaming services for a while, but now they have a particularly good reason to be jittery. An MPAA report citing IHS Markit data has shown that there were more subscriptions worldwide to online video services…

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March 21, 2019

Comcast launches Xfinity Flex internet streaming TV

Comcast’s latest bundle isn’t a cable TV service, exactly, since it’s aimed at its subscribers who only have internet service. Xfinity Flex will tie together paid internet video services as well as free ad-supported options in what VP Matt Strauss ca…

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March 21, 2019

Google is convinced it can get game streaming right

Phil Harrison won’t budge. As a vice president and general manager at Google, he’s spent the past 15 minutes explaining why Stadia, the company’s freshly announced game-streaming service, will actually work on the existing internet infrastructure acr…

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March 21, 2019

T-Mobile opens a home internet trial in rural and underserved areas

T-Mobile is rolling out home internet service with an invitation-only trial starting today. It hopes to connect 50,000 homes in rural and underserved areas through the LTE program this year.